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Un comité indépendant chargé d’enquêter sur le règlement de différends mettant en cause trois professeurs de médecine de l’Université Dalhousie a recommandé une réforme en profondeur de la relation entre l’Université et la régie de la santé de la province. […]

Accomplir l’équité exige une action réelle, selon Malinda Smith Les belles politiques et les gestes symboliques, Malinda Smith en a soupé. Pour la professeure agrégée au département de science politique de l’Université de l’Alber­ta, si les universités veulent vraiment réaliser […]

Signe que des élections se dessinent à l’horizon, le gouvernement manitobain a annoncé en janvier qu’il ajouterait 27,9 millions de dollars au budget des collèges et univer­sités de la province. Cette hausse du financement de 4 % portera le total […]

Pour Rani Neutill, une universitaire féministe intervenant auprès de victimes d’agression sexuelle, les mentions d’avertissement ont leur utilité, mais pas partout. D’accord pour les services d’aide et les sites de discussion en ligne, mais assurément pas dans les universités. Mme […]

Des multinationals vident les poches des familles pauvres Le gouvernement est en train de sevrer le financement public et d’abandonner le secteur de l’éducation au secteur privé, explique le président de l’Association nationale des enseignants diplômés du Ghana, Christian Addai-Poku. […]

An independent investigation into the handling of disputes involving three professors of medicine at Dalhousie University is calling for a fundamental reform of the relationship between the university and the provincial health authority. The inquiry, established by CAUT in 2004, […]

Rani Neutill, a feminist scholar and sexual assault survivor advocate, says trigger warnings are useful in support work and in online discussion groups, but they have no place in the academic setting. As a contract instructor, Neutill used trigger warnings […]

Three months away from a spring election, the Manitoba government announced in January that it would boost spending for colleges and universities by $27.9 million. That’s a four per cent increase, bringing the total budget to $710.8 million. “We know […]

[iStock.com/Epicurean] Hobbled by “civility codes” and eroded by corporatization, academic freedom has had a rough ride these last few years on university and college campuses, and 2015 was no exception. Does this ideal that’s so vital to the profession have […]

D.O. from Montreal writes: My institution is planning to move faculty email and computing services to Google Apps. I’ve heard CAUT has some concerns about this. Why? David Robinson, CAUT executive director, answers: Several universities and colleges have outsourced their […]

Universities and colleges today face a crisis of bad governance. The proliferation of scandals, secrecy and bureaucratic busywork; replacement of collegial decision making with autocratic top-down managerialism; ludicrously exaggerated administrative salaries at the top, while front-line educators are reduced to […]

Scientists and academic researchers from across the country applauded when the new Liberal government announced it would restore the mandatory long-form census. The decision to fix the census was the right thing to do, experts say, but a lot more […]